There’s probably a difference between the person you show everyone else and the person you are inside. Maybe it isn’t a huge difference. Maybe it is. But everyone has their own interior life.

You can feel the tension between that interior life and the outside world on Mitski‘s latest album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me. Today, Mitski joins World Cafe for a special session recorded at New York City’s Power Station to talk about the new record, the inspirations behind it and how anxiety, anger and the need to escape expectations informed the record.

Credits:

Mitski: vocals
Patrick Hyland: electric, acoustic guitars
Bruno Esrubilsky: drums
Jeni Magaña: bass, backing vocals
Emily Moore: guitarist, keys, backing vocals
Ty Bailie: keys
Alyssa Solomon: tour manager
Nick Hardy: production manager
Erica Turer: production coordinator
Stu Tenold: stage manager
Ashoka Kanungo: monitor audio engineer
Patrick Scott: foh audio engineer
Darrell Plampin: backline tech
Kris Bulakowski: backline tech
Lexie Alley: photographer

A huge thanks to the production team at Power Station for their work on today’s session: Neal Shaw, Omisha Chaitanya, Grace Leckey and Ben Miller.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. Our digital producer is Miguel Perez. World Cafe‘s engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.

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